Live Commentary - USA/France

Our live, minute-by-minute (almost) reactions to the first half of the USA/France Women's World Cup Semi-final.

Jeremy Spitzberg: let's go, USA!
Neal Thurman: happy to be back home in the office to be able to watch - wouldn't have been so lucky if I were still in Indy
Jeremy Spitzberg: ;-)
Jeremy Spitzberg: we don't get espn3 anymore :-(
Jeremy Spitzberg: but found an okay feed
Neal Thurman: firewall?
Jeremy Spitzberg: recording at home, just in case
Jeremy Spitzberg: provider?
Jeremy Spitzberg: dunno
Neal Thurman: got it
Jeremy Spitzberg: women keepers should just stay on their line
Jeremy Spitzberg: #justsaying

Considering Groups G and H

Video of this "wonder" goal after the jump.

In which we are disappointed with Ronaldo, curse the Swiss, and bash a generation of players through no fault of their own.

Considering Group C

The only goal-mouth action we got from England/Algeria.

In which we consider the situation in Group C after yesterday's matches and somehow end up talking about Arsenal. But then again, don't we always?

More World Cup Funny

"ZIDANE" print ad for KRONENBOURG BEER in Canada by AMEN

Billions and Billions

You're probably all too young to get the joke, but in the '80s Carl Sagan was a household name - not bad for an astronomer - thanks to his television series "Cosmos".  He would talk about the "billions and billions" of stars, etc.

Anyway... with that as prologue, I got a kick out of this misspelling in the AFP's photo:

Lakeside jog : French national football team's defender Bakary Sagan runs during a training session around a lake near Tignes in the French Alps, as part of the preparation for the upcoming World Cup 2010. (AFP/Franck Fife)